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Oral History Interview with Kojo Nantambu, May 15, 1978. Interview B-0059. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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Distrust of local police confirmed when they fail to arrest a white sniper

The distrust the students felt for the Wilmington Police Department was reinforced on Saturday, February 6. When a sniper began shooting at the African American students, the police claimed they could not find a firearm rather than arresting him.

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Interviewer	Larry Thomas
Interviewee	Kojo Nantambu
Excerpt Length	0:00:38
Start Time	00:11:11
Stop Time	00:11:49
Subjects	Race and Civil Rights > BLACK SELF-ASSERTION > Violent: Public or Overt Race and Civil Rights > WHITE RESPONSES TO CHANGE > Resistance: Other Group Race and Civil Rights > RACE AND RACE RELATIONS > Physical Harassment and Violence General > MEMORY > Reflections on History's Relevance Southern Politics > LEGAL SYSTEM > Law Enforcement: State and Local
Excerpt Places	Wilmington, New Hanover, NC

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Oral History Interview with Kojo Nantambu, May 15, 1978. Interview B-0059. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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On Saturday it started off with this white man on the corner of Fifth and Nun Street sniping. Everybody moved on that block of the church, he sniped them, tried to shoot them. So they kept calling the detectives, the sheriff to check this house out on the corner. The police went up there several times and every time they went in, they came out. They said nobody didn't have no gun, and every time after they left, the white man kept on shooting. We just thought from that point on, "Well, the pigs are working with them. They ain't looking out for our interest. too."